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The downthetubes news blog was assimilated into our main site back in 2013, but we're glad you're here, because that's currently undergoing some under the bonnet refurb! So we've brought this blog back from the dead to tide us over.

We expect to be back up and running next week, just before the 2017 Lakes International Comic Art Festival - see you there?

Hop over to www.downthetubes.net for other British comics news, comic creating guides, interviews and much more!

Thursday, 24 January 2013

Manga Jiman competition winners revealed

The judging panel for this year's Manga Jiman competition has selected the
manga below as the winning entries for this year - and manga fans have a chance to be at the invitation-only awards ceremony at the Embassy of Japan in London next month.

This year, the Embassy is holding a competition for a
limited number of its web site visitors to attend this exclusive event.
For a chance to win, e-mail your full name, the name of the
organisation you represent and your position to manga@ld.mofa.go.jp with "Webmagazine" as the subject.

Winnerss will be notified by e-mail no later than 31 January 2013.

Entries are listed in alphabetical order by title and the
exact position of each entrant will be announced at the ceremony.

Title

Entrant(s)

A Comic Book

Joshua Green

Bon Appetite

Tammy Taylor

Ganbare, My Son

Wei Tran

I Love You

Sara Ferreira and Gisela Martins

Invidia

Katja Hammond

Kumakop

Zuhaib Dalvi

Moving House

Susan and Steven Cook

Saying and Doing

Dean McKnight and Jade Sarson

Sky Riders

Rhiannon Tate

The Boy Who Flew

Kieran Blue Walton

The Lady In White

Dounia Chanchorle

All
of the above entries will be displayed at a special exhibition at the
Embassy of Japan in the spring of 2013 and the website will be updated
with the final positions once the announcement has been made.

The site downthetubes.net, which began publishing in 1999, is edited by John Freeman whose credits include editor of Doctor Who Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, Star Wars Magazine, and Marvel UK titles such as Overkill, Death's Head II, Warheads and others. He's currently editor of the upcoming Strip Magazine for Print Media Productions.

About the Writers:

• Matthew Badham has written features for Judge Dredd: The Megazine, the Forbidden Planet International blog and more

• Jeremy Briggs contributes news, reviews, interviews and historical articles on British comics. He is a guest writer on Steve Holland's UK comics history blog, Bear Alley, and has written for Comics International, TV Zone, Spaceship Away and Omnivistascope.

• David Hailwood has written comic strips for various publications, including TOXIC, Accent UK, Bulletproof and Futurequake. He also writes comedy material for TV, and regularly contributes to the Temple APA (a showcase for UK comic writers and artists).

• Andy Luke is a writer who draws: he's s created the eponymous Andy Luke's Comic Book, Gran, Absence: a comic about epilepsy, Hold the Phones, It's Alex Jones, and graphic novel, The Watch Thief. He's written about comics too, mainly for Bugpowder.com, and has been involved with the Caption comics festival in Oxford. He currently lives in Belfast with a large box of pasta and a 7ft tall cigarette, and can be found online at http://andy-luke.com and http://awriterwhodraws.com

• Ian Wheeler is a freelance writer who also edited the highly-acclaimed British comics fanzine Eagle Flies Again.